http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....0062604439

Afghanistan is just too complicated for our military morons, you see. It has nothing whatsover to do with the utter lack of civilian leadership. Nothing at all.

Today’s Wapro uses it to attack military professionalism: http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....02160.html Expect much more of that.

A commenter on another site claims that by moving Petraueus to Afghanistan, it will be possible to move anti-semite generals to CENTCOM. “The McChrystal Affair is an elegantly conceived, planned and executed operation designed to replace Petraeus in Centcom with some one who was anti-Israel and who accepted the notion of the Soviet Sphere of Influence.”. That makes more sense than the administration’s story that 4-star generals are really frat boys.

There are now 7 or 8 “benefits” for Obamy in this playlette. With no negatives.

The odds of that happening are more than 128 to 1.

http://townhall.com/columnists.....al_madness

A “highly intelligent badass” allows an openly hostile reporter from an openly hostile rag to hang with him and his team (handpicked, highly intelligent bad-asses) while they get hammered and while they make locker room commentary about their civilian leadership?

This reporter references unnamed people who heard stuff about private meetings, and he quotes things said in private that come across as divisive public comments (violating military doctrine)?

McChyrstal heads the JSOC, leads it as a “killing machine,” then he goes behind the lines in combat and “takes a knee” with corporals. How would this leader allow his orders on the Rules of Engagement to be interpreted so badly that they spell almost certain death for some of his soldiers?

snif snif. Karzai is ordering Obama not to fire McChyrstal. Karzai loved visiting the WH. visiting our mangled troops in hospitals and troops at Ft. Campbell and seeing them die only days after they arrived.

1. Install flamboyant general who will obliviously have contention with Obama’s asinine war strategy. After all, what does a communist community organizer know about war?
2. Ignore the advice and refuse to meet with said general to get the ball rolling on sending him over the edge.
3. Delay necessary troop increases.
4. Provide less that adequate forces when finally deciding to increase troop strength.
5. Slowly add them to the ranks as to limit their effectiveness.
6. Give them a hard deadline to get things done, and make it so close to the completion of the troop buildup, there are only a few months to get things done at “full” strength.
7. Micro-manage the situation on the ground with restrictive R.O.E.
8. Delay any operations that may prove to be successful to limit their scope and effectiveness because of the deadline.
9. Rejoice that the general you appointed as a ticking time bomb finally came unglued due to your blatant and intentional incompetence just before the largest operation meant to deliver a decisive blow to the enemy, so you can relieve him and further delay the offensive.
Things to look for:
1. Obama will replace McChrystal with someone from the Navy or Air Force with no operational experience with ground forces.
2. Further delay or cancel additional troop increases because they were part of McChrystal’s plan.
3. Further delay or cancel upcoming offensives for the same reason.
4. Maintain the 2011 pull out time table.
5. Delay or cut funding due to the deficit.

Conclusion: We’re boned. Better go get your Koran now before they are all gone and you are beheaded for not having one.

Fortunatley for us, then as now, the best ones weren’t.

The tell here -’According to sources familiar with the meeting’- NEVER, EVER forget it was a jerk who wrote that Bush ‘said’ something at a meeting ‘according to someone at the meeting’ – who never was in the room. Don’t forget that TIME started the Haditha mess with a ‘independent’ Iraqi journalist – who just so happened to have gotten his equipment (which just so happen to be set up at the exact time & place of this atrocityincident) from a Iraqi Human Rights group [See Haditha Reporter Was Jailed By US – Twice in S&L archives under Haditia or Murtha]? Now this freelance ‘journalist’ is just using sources ‘familiar’ with the meeting!?! And everyone is buying into it

I have to ask you – What are those with inquiring minds going to find out about Mr. Hastings – should anyone ever bother to do any investigating of him – Take a close look at this article – other than comments (and notice, other than a smile about the Whose That? Re Biden) – We do not know whether Mr. Hastings edited out any negative reactions from McChrystal in regards to all these – according to sources – commentary. Which are by the way mostly in private (non-public) places – Want to publish what Obama says on the record much less what he says off the record – Anytime soon – ‘journalists’????

I don’t buy this – and notice how now the ‘talk’ is no longer about Obama’s failures in the Gulf – his illegal extortion of 20billion from BP – but rather a snarky article written in a totally worthless magazine about a General? Talk about weapons of mass distortion – The Thug Administration has it down pat – of course having the MSM under his control is a great help.

PT Barnum was right – there is a sucker born every minute – I have to ask – if this is not about deflection from the BP Gulf mess – just WTF is the Thug Administration up to this week that needs such a big ‘scandal’ to cover up?

God Help America – Don’t get stuck on Stupid – It will get us all killed.

ABC News Report: U.S. Bribes to Protect Convoys Are Funding Taliban Insurgents
By Nick Schifrin June 22 2010

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -The United States military is helping fund both sides of the war in Afghanistan, knowingly financing a mafia-like collection of warlords and some of the very insurgents American troops are battling, according to Afghan and American officials and a new Congressional study released today.

Trucking executives and investigators from the House Subcommittee on National Security say the United States military knew it was helping fund the people it was fighting but did nothing about it,….

The study’s findings are reinforced by half a dozen interviews conducted in the last few months by ABC News with executives from trucking and security companies, both Afghan and American. Two American trucking executives, speaking on the condition of anonymity, say the payment structure goes beyond that depicted by the House report, detailing an intricate system whereby

the American military is handing over billions of dollars to companies that bribe insurgents, warlords, road bandits and even corrupt Afghan police and soldiers to hold their fire as the trucks roll past…

In one case, a security company is paying a local commander who funnels American money directly to the Quetta Shura, the Taliban leadership…
basically it’s a protection extortion racket,” Rep. John Tierney (D-MA), who chairs the House subcommittee, said in an interview with ABC News. “Tony Soprano would be proud of it.”

The House’s 85-page report, titled “Warlord, Inc.” was released as doubts about the war crescendo in Washington….

The report, along with a recent increase in violence, are so serious, the U.S. will have to determine whether to reconsider “the overall strategic approach to our mission in Afghanistan,” reads the report’s introduction.

In this landlocked country, the United States has turned to eight private trucking companies to deliver the materiel and split a $2.16 billion Host Nation Trucking contract. To do that, the companies turn to the baddest, meanest, most heavily armed people…

One American trucking executive details how the payments work: Each district or province that straddles Highway 1 has a “paymaster,” an intermediary between the private security company and those who attack the trucks. The paymaster will collect money from the security company — “an increasingly large amount,” the executive quips — and distribute it to whoever he needs to, including the Taliban, thieves, corrupt local officials, road bandits……..run by police who are also getting a cut.

…., a single trip might make a security company more than half a million dollars.

“What we usually do is provide funds to a tribal elder, who will then say, this convoy is XYZ, leave it alone….”

But fears that the security company was using the money to pay insurgents were reinforced on May 14. After a handful of particularly bad incidents, …. Within a few weeks, the government allowed the companies to resume convoy duties.

Afghan Report Says Lieutenant Colonels Were Aware of Convoy Bribes…
The House subcommittee uncovered written evidence that military officers ranked as high as lieutenant colonel knew about the likely payments to insurgents, but did nothing.

“One senior Department of Defense official in Afghanistan stated that there have been significant discussions within the Department [of Defense] of the problem of protection payments to local warlords and the Taliban,…… — hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil.’”

U.S. officials admit that they simply haven’t been focused on contracting despite the billions of dollars of taxpayer money dedicated to it.

The most powerful security commander in Afghanistan is a man named Ruhullah. He agreed to a rare meeting with a reporter, walking in with a gold rolex watch and a slightly squeaky voice. His nickname is
The Butcher…

Ruhullah is employed by Watan Risk Management, owned by a cousin and close confidant of President Hamid Karzai. He in turn employs hundreds of guards to defend 3,500 trucks every month  by far the largest share of the security companies working with the Host Nation Trucking contract. He told the subcommittee he spends $1.5 million worth of ammunition — every month.

Officials in Pakistan believe that Ruhullah not only funds the local warlords and thieves and road bandits in Afghanistan, but sends a portion of his money to the Quetta Shura  the Taliban leadership council, based in southwest Pakistan.

“If one of the foundational aspects of counter-insurgency is to have a government in Afghanistan that people from that country can trust….– but the guy that’s armed might make $20 million in a year — ….”

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/Afgha.....d=10980527

The teamsters should demand the trucking jobs.

The Rolling Stone should buy the vacant shambled house that Corporal Michael Ingram died in, for his platoon, and let them tear it down. Or better burn it down by lighting the “covers of the Rolling Stone”.

I think it would be a big boost for their moral, and help in the healing process, of their broken hearts and spirits brought on by the hands of the Obama Regime.

Better yet, I think the Rolling Stones should organize & finance, a free membership no dues ” Union for U.S. Soldiers who serve under the Obama Regime”. Do some bargaining and win their freedom from Obama’s slavery, if thats what it takes to earn some loyality & respect.

Obama described Marines in Iraq who just lost 5 of their own, as raw, skinny, pimple faced teenagers.
Look at all the Marines being killed, and sending more Special Forces.

I can’t believe O’Reilly and his guest saying McChrystal is brillliant and they feel sorry for him. sniff sniff. He won’t get blown up by and IED and he’ll have a nice pension, and get to be with his wife.

McChrystal didn’t feel bad for a squad that just lost a soldier that McChrystal had even met. He belittled them.

“… “I ask you what’s going on in your world, and I think it’s important for you all to understand the big picture as well,” McChrystal begins. “How’s the company doing? You guys feeling sorry for yourselves? Anybody? Anybody feel like you’re losing?” McChrystal says. “Sir, some of the guys here, sir, think we’re losing, sir,” says Hicks. McChrystal nods….”

Hey McChrystal? What’s going on in your world. I think it’s important you understand the big picture as well. Feel like you’re a loser? sniff sniff. sniff.

But if he was a Man in the image of Real Men he’d stand by his comments and not cower like a whipped pup groveling I’m Sorry.

Surely this is not the best the Pentagon has to offer … or we be fooked as a Nation, folks.

Stop right there! So, he voted for him, and now there is friction, and he may lose his job for the clown he voted for? —You get the government you deserve general…..serves you right.